Bryant Bros. v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This clearly implies that the term ‘reverme law,’ when used in connection with the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, means a law impose ing duties on imports or tonnage, or a law providing in terms for revenue; that is to say, a law which is directly traceable to the power granted to Congress by section 8, article 1, of the Constitution, ‘to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Twin Falls Canal Co. v. Foote

2. ““The cause was properly removable under this section (643) if the postmaster can properly be called an ‘officer appointed under or acting by authority of any revenue law of the United States.’ ⅜ * * There is no decision of the Supreme Court decisive of the question as to whether this cause is removable under section 643.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Twin Falls Canal Co. v. Foote

3. ““This language (from the Bromley Case) strongly indicates that postal laws may be revenue laws within the meaning of section 643, but the expressions we have quoted from United States v. Hill, supra, may point to a different conclusion.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Twin Falls Canal Co. v. Foote